how can I make sure a new distro's GRUB menu includes all distros?
by newbiesforever from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6Q43W)
In this thread https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...es-4175731155/, I explained that I had a problem with two Debian-based distros both writing bootloader menus that left the other distro out. I'd install one distro, and it would keep the old distro off the GRUB menu it wrote. Once I got back into the old distro (I'm trying to remember how I did that without it being on the grub menu), I used a boot repair...but it just re-wrote its own grub menu with the new distro left off.
The solution that someone gave (editing a certain line in /etc/default/grub, then updating grub) was in the context of using a bootloader repair program. Fixing the problem after it has occurred was good; but how would I prevent it from happening in the first place? I want to try Peppermint again, but not if it will cut off access to my MX installation. That was a mess and I want to avoid making it again, even if I can fix it. Any change that I make would be from the liveUSB I'm installing from.
The solution that someone gave (editing a certain line in /etc/default/grub, then updating grub) was in the context of using a bootloader repair program. Fixing the problem after it has occurred was good; but how would I prevent it from happening in the first place? I want to try Peppermint again, but not if it will cut off access to my MX installation. That was a mess and I want to avoid making it again, even if I can fix it. Any change that I make would be from the liveUSB I'm installing from.